It certainly helps to have people who really know what they're doing there to smooth out those rough spots. Guys like me can learn lots just reading this stuff. Though in my case I'll still need someone to hold my hand, so to speak. You're ok guys, VR isn't good enough to reach out and touch someone yet! At least not that I know of.

Heh.... I haven't gotten around to deciding if I want to risk borking my drive a second time to verify, but it was running this under XP that borked my SSD in the first place.... win7 worked fine, XP seemed to work fine for my IDE drive, but when it tried to do the SSD it not only made the partition unreadable, but borked it to a point where the XP install disk would hang as soon as it tried to access the drive.... doing a full hdderase resolved the issue.

Now, this may have been a one-of.... it may have been something to do with the fact that I'd installed xp then win7 then went back to XP on the SSD, but I normally remove all partition information before installing a fresh OS.

been using it all week have used about 50 times now and the only time it didn't work was on my raid setup all else was fine. all it does is move all the data and put a 2mb chunk in front of everything i can see how it could really screw up xp. can't speak for xp it's been dead in my house for many years now so i can't.